• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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Audience profile
  • Individuals planning to deploy applications and create application environments on Google Cloud
  • Systems operations professionals, solution architects getting started with Google Cloud, and developers.
  • Executives and business decision makers evaluating the potential of Google Cloud to address their business needs.
At course completion

You will be able to:

  • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services
  • Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud
  • Explain how to create a basic infrastructure in Google Cloud
  • Select and use Google Cloud storage options

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Course details

Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Course introduction
Module 2: Introducing Google Cloud
  • Cloud computing overview
  • IaaS and PaaS
  • The Google Cloud network
  • Environmental impact
  • Security
  • Open source ecosystems
  • Pricing and billing
  • Quiz
Module 3: Resources and Access in the Cloud
  • Google Cloud resource hierarchy
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Service accounts
  • Cloud Identity
  • Interacting with Google Cloud
  • Pluralsight: Getting Started with GCP and Qwiklabs
  • LAB: Google Cloud Fundamentals: Getting Started with Cloud Marketplace
  • Quiz
Module 4: Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud
  • Virtual Private Cloud networking
  • Compute Engine
  • Scaling virtual machines
  • Important VPC compatibilities
  • Cloud Load Balancing
  • Cloud DNS and Cloud CDN
  • Connecting networks to Google VPC
  • LAB: Getting Started with VPC Networking and Google Compute Engine
  • Quiz
Module 5: Storage in the Cloud
  • Google Cloud storage options
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Storage: Storage classes and data transfer
  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Spanner
  • Firestore
  • Bigtable
  • Comparing storage options
  • LAB: Google Cloud Fundamentals: Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQLles
  • Quiz
Module 6: Containers in the Cloud
  • Introduction to containers
  • Kubernetes
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Quiz
Module 7: Applications in the Cloud
  • Cloud Run
  • Development in the cloud
  • LAB: Hello Cloud Run
  • Quiz
Module 8: Course Summary
  • Course summary

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Prerequisites

None

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